Repo Men

 

Repo Men 2010

• Director: Miguel Sapochnik
• Seen by this director – a couple of episodes of Fringe
• Based on the novel by Eric Garcia
• Cast: Jude Law, Forest Whitaker, Alice Braga, Liev Schreiber, Carice von Houten, Chandler Canterbury
• Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
• Jude Law – Genius, Black Sea, Sherlock Holmes Game of Shadows, Hugo, Contagion, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Sherlock Holmes, Holiday, Breaking and Entering, The Aviator, Closer, Alfie, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, Cold Mountain, Road to Perdition, eXistenZ, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Gattaca, Wilde
• Forest Whitaker – Black Panther, Rogue One, Arrival, The Butler, The Great Debaters, Last King of Scotland, Smoke, The Crying Game, Bird, Good Morning Vietnam, Platoon
• Alice Braga – Elysium
• Liev Schreiber – The Fifth Wave, The Butler, Mental, Taking Woodstock, Defiance, Kate & Leopold, Hamlet
• Carice von Houten – From Time to Time, Valkyrie
• Chandler Canterbury – Fringe, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Why? Law, Whitaker, liked it the first time.
• Seen: Once before. Now 5 March 2021.      

       In a post-global catastrophe with wars going on out there, Remy (Law) in in the organ-fetching business. If you can’t keep up with the payments of your transplanted organ it’s Remy’s job to take the organ back and return it to the company. Too bad he usually has to kill you to get it. You signed the contract after all. For Remy it’s just a job that he does every day after kissing his wife and son good-bye.

       He and his partner Jake (Whitaker) have loads of fun on the job, but his wife isn’t thrilled and eventually she leaves him, taking the kid. Remy starts thinking of going into sales instead. But before he can do that….

       Yes, it’s violent and gory and absurd (maybe) but it also deals with moral issues, medical care business and politics and existential angst. It’s exciting and well-acted, especially by Whitaker. Great music too.      

 4* of 5